Introduces students to the most significant topics in anthropology of gender.   Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective is a one-volume reader built on classic contributions to gender and anthropology, incorporating recent literature on gender roles and ideology around the world.   It combines theoretically and ethnographically-based essays and is appropriate for undergraduate and beginning graduate students.   Learning Goals Upon completing this book readers will be able to: Name the most significant topics in anthropology of gender Discuss the questions raised by the authors in each section Understand issues of gender in industrial society and developing societies Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchlab (at no additional cost).

Table of Contents:
Found in this Section: 1. Brief Table of Contents 2. Full Table of Contents 1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS   Preface    About the Authors      I. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution    II. Gender and Prehistory    III. Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds    IV. Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender V. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood    VI. Culture, Sexuality, and the Body    VII. Gender, Property, and the State    VIII. Gender, Household, and Kinship    IX. Gender, Ritual, and Religion    X. Gender, Politics, and Reproduction    XI. Gender and the Global Economy      2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS   Preface    About the Authors      I. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution    Animal Models and Gender Marlene Zuk Delusions of Gender: What Does it All Mean Anyway? and Brain Scams    Cordelia Fine Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? Lucinda J. Peach Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil    Nancy Scheper-Hughes The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father—Infant Bonding    Barry S. Hewlett   II. Gender and Prehistory    The Past is a Foreign Country: Archaeology of Sex and Gender    Rosemary A. Joyce The Fashioning of Women    J. M Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page Inca Gender Relations: From Household to Empire    R. Alan Covey   III. Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds    The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy    Louise Lamphere From “Private” Affairs to “Public” Scandals: The Modern Woman’s Challenge to Husband’s Infidelities in Uganda    Shanti Parikh Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women    Nicholas W. Townsend Marriage, Modernity and Migration: Changing Dynamics of Intimacy in a Mexican Transnational Community Jennifer S. Hirsch      IV. Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification    Woman the Hunter: The Agta    Agnes Estioko-Griffin and P. Bion Griffin Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai    Maria Lepowsky Do Tents and Herds Still Matter? Pastoral Nomadism and Gender among the Tuareg in Niger and Mali    Susan Rasmussen Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power    Toyin Falola   V. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood    My Encounter with Machismo in Spain    David D. Gilmore Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea    Gilbert H. Herdt The Named and the Nameless: Gender and Person in Chinese Society    Rubie S. Watson Gender and the Stories Pittsburgh Police Officers Tell about Using Physical Force    Bonnie MCElhinny Surgical Transformation in the Pursuit of Gender Lauren E. Gulbas      VI. Culture, Sexuality, and the Body     Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings    Lila Abu-Lughod From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation    Alma Gottlieb Hijras: An “Alternative” Sex/Gender in India    Gayatri Reddy and Serena Nanda Constructing the Lesbian Body: The Worker Community of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival    Alexis Matza   VII. Gender, Property, and the State    Encountering the State: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women’s Political Experience    Josephine Caldwell Ryan Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus    Anne Allison "Single Women are Bitter”: The Gendered Production of Affective States in Chile Nia C. Parson Women’s Autonomy, Islam, and the French State John R. Bowen   VIII. Gender, Household, and Kinship    What to do with Unmarried Daughters? Modern Solutions to a Traditional Dilemma in a Polyandrous Tibetan Society Geoff Childs, Melvyn G. Goldstein, and Puchung Wangdui Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community    Sharon Hicks-Bartlett Rethinking Caribbean Families: Extending the Links    Mary Chamberlain Resignation and Refusal: The Moral Calculus of Lesbian and Gay Parenthood in the US    Ellen Lewin   IX. Gender, Ritual, and Religion    Spirit Possession and Gender Complementarity: Zâr in Rural Northern Sudan    Janice Boddy “Tradition” and Threat: Women’s Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals    Janet MCIntosh Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual    Laurel Kendall How to Change a Man: Spiritual Transformation and Shifts in Gender Ideology in Evangelical El Salvador    José Leonardo Santos   X. Gender, Politics, and Reproduction    Natural Birth at the Turn of the 21st Century: Implications for Gender    Margaret MacDonald Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania    Gail Kligman Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family    Heléna Ragoné Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy    Ellen Gruenbaum   XI. Gender and the Global Economy    Enter Microcredit: A New Culture of Women’s Empowerment in Rajasthan Megan Moodie Factory as Home and Family: Female Workers in the Moroccan Garment Industry   M. Laetitia Cairoli Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong   Nicole Constable Migration, Money and Masculinity in Kerala Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella Sex Tourism, Globalization, and Transnational Imaginings    Denise Brennan